[pittsburgh gop guy]

"..if you were to take a poll of Freepers you might find that a substantial minority, if not majority, agree with the sodomy decision."

Then they should READ THE DECISION, as I have. The majority opinion is one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever handed down, and completely destroys the whole notion of stare decisis (which is not all bad). The decision embraces the Gay Revolution and Roe v. Wade.

READ the entire decision before you embrace it. O'Connor is all over the place and contradicts the majority opinion in the Bowers case - which she was part of!!!! If you agree with the majority decision on this case, you agree with gay marriage and abortion on demand.

The best part (unfortunatly) of this decision today, is from the dissent:

By Scalia - which he read today:
"Today ’s opinions in support of reversal do not bother to distinguish —or indeed,even bother to mention —the paean to stare decisis coauthored by three Members of today ’s majority in Planned Parenthood v.Casey. There,when stare decisis meant preservation of judicially invented abortion rights,the widespread criticism of Roe was strong reason to reaffirm it..."

&

"What a massive disruption of the current social order,
therefore,the overruling of Bowers entails. Not so the
overruling of Roe ,which would simply have restored the
regime that existed for centuries before 1973, in which the
permissibility of and restrictions upon abortion were
determined legislatively State-by-State."

&

"Today ’s opinion is the product of a Court,which is the product of a law-profession culture,that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual conduct.I noted in an earlier opinion the fact that the American Association of Law Schools (to which any reputable law school must seek to belong) excludes from membership any school that refuses to ban from its job-interview facilities a law firm (no matter how small)that does not wish to hire as a prospective partner a person who openly engages in homosexual conduct."

[Labyrinthos]

If you agree with the majority decision on this case, you agree with gay marriage and abortion on demand.

I have not read any of today's decisions and will not have the time to do so until late tonight. I will withhold my response until then. I will say however, that I am against abortion on demand or for any other reason, including rape or incest; view gay marriage as a state issue not a constitutional crisis; and believe that government should regulate less of our lives, rather than more, particularly when the issue is consenual behavior between adults in the privacy of one's home.

The majority opinion... completely destroys the whole notion of stare decisis (which is not all bad).

Although I'm a big believer in stare decisis, the doctine is by no means absolute. If it was, then Dred Scott would still be the law of the land.